Tableware drainer



Nov. '2,192e.- 1,605,238 P. JEZIK TABLEWARE DRAI NER Filed July 25 1923iv 5. Fly 4. 7

lNVENTOR Pau/ JeZ/X ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PAUL JEZIK, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

TABLEWARE DRAINER.

Application filed. July 25, 1923. Serial No. 653,654.

This invention relates to wire receptacles which are designed, moreespecially, for use as a drainer for tableware.

The invention has for its object to provide a receptacle of thischaracter which will be of novel, strong, durable and inexpensiveconstruction, and which is convenient to use.

lVith this and other objects in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction,

19 arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described, claimedand illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the main or outer member of my improveddrainer. Fig.

15 2 is a vertical section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is anelevational view, with parts broken away, of the inner member of thedrainer. Fig. 4 is an elevational view of the drainer complete.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 5 indicates an outer member,preferably circular, which is intended for holding dishes; and 6indicates the inner member which is arranged to be detachably connectedto said outer member and is intended for holding knives, forks, spoons,and the like, while being drained.

Both of said members are constructed of wire. As shown, the outer member5 is constructed with a frame comprising ribs 7 and 8, the inner ends ofwhich are secured to a central ring 9, each rib extending therefrom in ageneral radial direction to a bend 10 and thence upwardly as at 11 andhas its upper end secured to a ring 12 which constitutes the rim of themember.

At a short distance from the central ring 9, each of said ribs isprovided with vertically spaced bends 13 and 14: to provide the framewith a central recessed portion.

This recessed portion of the frame is provided with a bottom 15 formedof a spirally arranged wire, see Fig. 1, and a peripheral wall 16 of ahelically arranged wire which is desirably an extension of said bottomwire. Said bottom and wall are secured, as by welding, to the horizontaland vertical elements 17 and 18, respectively, of therecessed portion ofthe frame.

The wire 16 is disposed interiorly of the frame recess andby its helicalarrangement serves as an internal screw thread.

Surrounding said recess the frame ribs wall of said pocket being supporta floor comprising a plurality of rings 19 formed of wire andsecured tosaid ribs concentrically of the frame.

20 represent wire rings secured in vertically spaced positions to therib elements 11 and with the latter and the rim l2 constitute theperipheral wall of the outer member. The ribs 7 adjacent to therespective bands 10 are formed with depending loops 21 which serve assupporting legs for the drainer.

The inner member 6 is the shape of an inverted frustum of a cone, ismade of wire with a frame consisting of a ring 23 secured to the upperends of ribs 22. Rigidly secured to and surrounding the rib portion ofthe last named frame is a helically arranged wire 24 which serves as anexternal screw thread with respect to the inner member and is engageablewith the internal screwthreads provided by the helically arranged wire16 of the outer member for detachably connecting the two memberstogether.

The two members are readily coupled or disconnected by suitably rotatingthe inner member when the smaller end of the same is inserted within thereceptacle therefor provided by the central recess of the outer member.The outer member is intended to be used for dishes, or the like, whetherthe inner member is used or not.

The inner member is intended to be used for knives, forks, etc., whichare supported thereby in substantially vertical positions upon the floor15 of the recess or pocket of the bottom of the outer member.

The drainer is of simple constructionand is conveniently kept in a cleanand sanitary condition.

What I claim, is,

A drainer of the character described formed of wire and comprising anouter member having a circular pocket in the floor thereof, the wireconstituting the peripheral disposed helically,

an inner member having a circumferential wall formed by arranging thestructural wire helically so as to afford a screw-like engagement withthe helically formed wall of said pocket.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 9th day of July, 1923.

PAUL JEZIK.

